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Topic: FB Alpha License (Read 7313 times)

It is clear that there are various projects using FB Alpha source for their needs, but they are not following the FB Alpha License agreement.

Maybe it is because they missed it ?, I don't think that is the situation, and I personally think it is disrespectful to the original FinalBurn / FB Alpha project to not follow the simple license terms and conditions.

Up to date this is the Official FB Alpha license that everyone must follow when obtaining the binary / source package.

I made a quote, referenced it on the official site and attached a license snapshot so there is no chance this can be missed.

You may freely use, modify, and distribute both the FB Alpha source code and binary, however the following restrictions apply to the FB Alpha original material (see below for a list of libraries with differing licenses, please consult their respective documentation for more information):

* You may not sell, lease, rent or otherwise seek to gain monetary profit from FB Alpha; * You must make public any changes you make to the source code; * You must include, verbatim, the full text of this license; * You may not distribute binaries which support games with copyright dates less then three years old; * You may not distribute FB Alpha with ROM images unless you have the legal right to distribute them.

DISCLAIMER: The authors of FB Alpha don't guarantee its fitness for any purpose, implied or otherwise, and do not except responsibility for any damages whatsoever that might occur when using FB Alpha. All games emulated by FB Alpha, including any images and sounds therein, are copyrighted by their respective copyright holders. FB Alpha DOES NOT INCLUDE any ROM images of emulated games.

The following information and license conditions accompanied the original Final Burn emulator. They also apply to FB Alpha:

"Copyright (c)2001 Dave (formally of www.finalburn.com), all rights reserved. This refers to all code except where stated otherwise (e.g. unzip and zlib code)."

"You can use, modify and redistribute this code freely as long as you don't do so commercially. This copyright notice must remain with the code. If your program uses this code, you must either distribute or link to the source code. If you modify or improve this code, you must distribute the source code improvements."